By Manish Gupta and Vishav, New Delhi : Asserting India's fast economic growth is not without generation of jobs, Economic Affairs Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg said the country actually faces shortage of capital more than the scarcity of jobs. While most Indians...
San Francisco : Facebook will now incentivise its 36,000 employees on how they are contributing to social causes and helping the company tackle issues like spread of misinformation and hate speech on its platform. Going beyond metrics like user growth and product...
New Delhi : The unemployment rate in India stood at a 45-year high during 2017-18, according to a report of the National Sample Survey (NSS) office which has not been published, over which two members of the National Statistical Commission (NSC) resigned in protest on...
New Delhi : With middle-class apathy on the rise, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley may double the income tax exemption threshold for the salaried from the present Rs 2.5 lakhs to Rs 5 lakhs while also reinstating tax-free status for medical expenses and transport...
New Delhi : Opposition parties and political leaders on Monday sought to dismiss as "election gimmick" the Narendra Modi governments move to give 10 percent reservation for economically backward people in the general category, ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections....
Kolkata : West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday accused the BJP-led Central government of deliberately not releasing funds for various Central schemes and said Rs 2,500 crore under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA)...
Mumbai : With the aim of doubling its growth in India, Germany-based remote connectivity solutions provider TeamViewer on Tuesday announced the opening of an office in Mumbai, its first in the country. TeamViewer software allows users to remotely control other...
By Mohammed Shafeeq, Hyderabad : From farm loan waiver up to Rs 2 lakh to unemployment allowance and from doubling security pensions to free cows, laptops and bicycles, major political parties in debt-ridden Telangana are promising the moon to the voters. The main...
New York : General Motors (GM) stock fell on Tuesday after US President Donald Trump stepped up his attack on the company, threatening to cut all subsidies after the automaker announced thousands of jobs cuts and closure of several plants across North America. "Very...
By Nishant Arora, Las Vegas : As tech companies the world over face an acute crunch of skilled workforce in the field of Cloud computing, retail giant Amazon's Cloud arm, Amazon Web Services (AWS), has decided to go beyond providing training and certification to now...